Rachel I Mayberry

Datos Biográficos

ID804449
NOMBRERachel I Mayberry
NOMBRESRachel I
APELLIDOMayberry
FIRMAMAYBERRY R I
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California San Diego
ORCID0000-0002-0819-4140
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS17
TOTAL DE CITAS22
TOTAL COMO AUTOR17
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1987
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • American Sign Language basic clause comprehension strategies used by late first-language learners

    Open AccessQi Cheng, Rachel I MayberryARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2026

    Few studies to date have explored the role of early language experience on syntactic development during the early stages of language acquisition. Understanding the language outcomes of deaf individuals with severely delayed first language (L1) onset can provide valuable insights into the nature of the critical period for early syntactic development. The current study examines the use of linguistic versus extra-linguistic (plausibility, animacy) c…

  • Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition

    Open AccessRachel Miles, Marla Hatrak et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    Research on the language acquisition of deaf individuals who are exposed to accessible linguistic input at a variety of ages has provided evidence for a sensitive period of first language acquisition. Recent studies have shown that deaf individuals who first learn language after early childhood, late first-language learners (LL1), do not comprehend reversible Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) sentences. The present study analyzed 478 signed productions e…

  • Limits to resilience

    Anne Therese Frederiksen, Rachel I MayberryARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2025

    The present study investigated narrative abilities in five deaf adults who grew up with impoverished language access until learning American Sign Language (ASL) after age 12. We found that these signers generally provided sufficient information and structure, and that their referent tracking showed pragmatic awareness and ability to vary the explicitness of referring expressions according to addressee needs. However, both story structure and refe…

  • An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework

    Open AccessRachel Miles, Shai Lynne Nielson et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2025

    While many researchers working in spoken languages have used modality to distinguish language and gesture, this is not possible for sign language researchers. We argue that co-sign gestures must be considered alongside co-speech gestures in theories of language acquisition. Focusing on how the same function is served in embodied communication in speech and embodied communication in sign promotes a truly multimodal view of language acquisition. An…

  • Nonverbal predication and Self-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language

    Open AccessTory Sampson, Rachel I MayberryARTICLELingua2025Referencias: 9

  • Number Stroop Effects in Arabic Digits and ASL Number Signs

    Open AccessNina Semushina, Rachel I Mayberry et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2023

    Multiple studies have reported mathematics underachievement for students who are deaf, but the onset, scope, and causes of this phenomenon remain understudied. Early language deprivation might be one factor influencing the acquisition of numbers. In this study, we investigated a basic and fundamental mathematical skill, automatic magnitude processing, in two formats (Arabic digits and American Sign Language number signs) and the influence of age …

  • An emerging self

    Tory Sampson, Rachel I Mayberry et al.ARTICLELanguage2022

    We question the commonly accepted assumption that American Sign Language (ASL) has no overt copula. We present evidence that one of the functions of the sign Self in present-day ASL is as a copula. This sign evolved into its current function by way of a grammaticalization process called the ‘copula cycle’ (Katz 1996). The copula cycle consists of a deictic item transforming into a demonstrative pronoun and then into a copula by means of a series …

  • Acquiring a first language in adolescence

    Open AccessQi Cheng, Rachel I MayberryARTICLEJournal of Child Language2019

    Previous studies suggest that age of acquisition affects the outcomes of learning, especially at the morphosyntactic level. Unknown is how syntactic development is affected by increased cognitive maturity and delayed language onset. The current paper studied the early syntactic development of adolescent first language learners by examining word order patterns in American Sign Language (ASL). ASL uses a basic Subject–Verb–Object order, but also em…

  • Reference tracking in early stages of different modality L2 acquisition

    Open AccessAnne Therese Frederiksen, Rachel I MayberryARTICLESecond language Research2018Citada por: 4Referencias: 11

    Previous research on reference tracking has revealed a tendency towards over-explicitness in second language (L2) learners. Only limited evidence exists that this trend extends to situations where the learner's first and second languages do not share a sensory-motor modality. Using a story-telling paradigm, this study examined how hearing novice L2 learners accomplish reference tracking in American Sign Language (ASL), and whether they transfer s…

  • Who's on First? Investigating the referential hierarchy in simple native ASL narratives

    Open AccessAnne Therese Frederiksen, Rachel I MayberryARTICLELingua2016Citada por: 4Referencias: 29

  • The initial stages of first-language acquisition begun in adolescence

    Open AccessNaja Ferjan Ramírez, Amy M Lieberman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2013

    Children typically acquire their native language naturally and spontaneously at a very young age. The emergence of early grammar can be predicted from children's vocabulary size and composition (Bates et al. , 1994; Bates, Bretherton & Snyder, 1998; Bates & Goodman, 1997). One central question in language research is understanding what causes the changes in early language acquisition. Some researchers argue that the qualitative and quantitative s…

  • When timing is everything

    Open AccessRachel I MayberryARTICLEApplied Psycholinguistics2007

    The present paper summarizes three experiments that investigate the effects of age of acquisition on first-language (L1) acquisition in relation to second-language (L2) outcome. The experiments use the unique acquisition situations of childhood deafness and sign language. The key factors controlled across the studies are age of L1 acquisition, the sensory–motor modality of the language, and level of linguistic structure. Findings consistent acros…

  • Age constraints on first versus second language acquisition

    Open AccessRachel I Mayberry, Elizabeth LockARTICLEBrain and Language2003

  • Gesture and early bilingual development

    Elena Nicoladis, Rachel I Mayberry et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1999Citada por: 14Referencias: 1

    The relationship between speech and gestural proficiency was investigated longitudinally (from 2 years to 3 years 6 months, at 6-month intervals) in 5 French-English bilingual boys with varying proficiency in their 2 languages. Because of their different levels of proficiency in the 2 languages at the same age, these children's data were used to examine the relative contribution of language and cognitive development to gestural development. In te…

  • What stuttering reveals about the development of the gesture-speech relationship

    Open AccessRachel I Mayberry, Joselynne Jaques et al.ARTICLENew Directions for Child and…1998

  • The long-lasting advantage of learning sign language in childhood

    Open AccessRachel I Mayberry, Ellen B EichenARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language1991

  • Symbolic development in deaf children

    Open AccessRachel I Mayberry, Rhonda Wodlinger-Cohen et al.ARTICLENew Directions for Child and…1987

    An examination of research indicates that deafness in and of itself does not preclude the development of symbols in children